In fact, Argentinian beef is in high demand in much of the world specifically because the cattle in Argentina graze on grass only.
The use of grain supplementation is expected to increase in 2014 and 2015 as world feed grain prices have dropped significantly...The different livestock industries have plenty of resources to produce and expand in the future , as Argentina has millions of hectares of pastureland and is one of the world’s top producer s and exporter s of grains and oilseeds...Several million h ectares of good pastureland were turned into crop land. Therefore, in order to maintain cattle and beef production producers intensified their cattle production on fewer hectares. Today most of the beef consumed in Argentina is grain - fed beef.
I’ve been schooled in agriculture and have worked in agriculture off and on for about 40 years. Like people in other lines of work, there are good people and bad people in agriculture. And now, with their sponsoring of media and influence in politics, many of those most supported by big government and government-linked business are much more widely well liked and trusted.
Here are some of the complaints of those more favored and government-connected people over the past 15 years or so.
* The land is overgrazed.
* There aren’t enough regulations.
* There aren’t enough impact fees.
* There are too many people.
* There’s too much development.
* There’s too much mining and drilling.
* There aren’t enough animal protection laws.
I could go on, but you see the point. They look good, because they’re rich on your money. Their voice is heard, because they pump enormous sums of money into the media and into politics. They haven’t been in agriculture for long, but they do dominate agriculture. They’re also investors in energy, bonds and other markets.
I knew a rancher whose family once owned over 400 square miles of ranchland, before he passed away. He was also a bomber crewman in the Army Air Corps in World War II. His family and many other families like them are out of the business. Others are being put out of business by the new gangs around them.